Reddit


Anybody here hangout on reddit? I'm on reddit a lot, kinda hate it. But, in some small subredditts you can find some half normal people. I like the fact you can get responses quick. Sometimes it seems dead around here, especially on the specific movie boards you actually want to talk about.

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NOPE...NEVER.

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It's kind of a cesspool, i do t blame you. But the scroll be addictive. I don't have any other social media, didn't even have reddit till a few years ago, but it has it claws in me. It's such a time sink for little reward.

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I use both reddit and 4chan. I rarely post there, same as here.

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reddit stole me away from here

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I feel ya.

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Never! Apart from here, I don’t do social media.

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Almost everything about Reddit is annoying:

- Bots on the more popular subreddits that instantly delete new threads for reasons that aren't even true. For example, one time a bot deleted my thread with the message:

"Your submission contains a common typo or spelling error, and has been automatically removed."

It didn't contain a typo nor spelling error of any kind, and even if it did (it didn't), so what?

- Reddit's software automatically changing posts where you list things or it "thinks" you are listing things. For example, I started a reply once with "22.", because that was an answer to the OP's question. Reddit "helpfully" changed it to a "1." because it "thought" I was starting a numbered list.

- Threads becoming read-only in such a short amount of time is also ridiculous. That just leads to more repeat threads because ones that are older than a few months can't be replied to. Also, even if you could reply to them, only the person you replied to is likely to see it, because unlike every other forum in existence, new replies don't bump a thread to the top.

- Way too fragmented. There are some forty-eleven zillion subreddits; utterly impossible for any one person to keep track of them all. Is there a general topic subreddit there? Fucked if I know. To make matters worse, they all have their own [often anal-retentive] set of rules.

- On a normal forum, you can type some stuff, embed an image to illustrate what you're talking about, type some more stuff, embed another image, and so on. Try that there (or here, for that matter).

- Sometimes clicking on the topic title takes you to the thread and sometimes it takes you to an external site or just to an image, depending on how the thread was created.

The only thing Reddit has going for it is a massive user base. In every other respect it sucks compared to a conventional forum. It's effectively a shit ton of different forums under one roof, all with bad software design.

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I pretty much agree with everything I skimmed there. The main subreddits are all bots, well tonnes anway. But there are cool places to chat. And yes massive user base is the main selling point, main word selling point. It's all about money now.

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Reddit gets so much traffic it's actually impossible to have a conversation sometimes. I mostly use it for getting the scoop on movies getting made rather than after they come out.

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Not on it but find answers to some things sometimes.

I find it strange that when you do a search, most of the responses bring up reddit - it's like there's nothing else on the internet but them and major platforms.

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No, never.

There are plenty of assholes to deal with here.

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Tell me about it.

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Not much to tell really.

I’m the unpopular fellow for speaking my mind and tossing some jokes.

I thought the gang had a sense of humor but obviously I was mistaken.

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I was thinking more of the constant revolving door of trolls.

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Eh, the trolls are nothing but harmless bores.
They never last long.

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One in, one out.

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